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Crane's Bill

. See Geranium

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Crane-Fly

singular, any twogenus Tip Tipula or the winged fly of the family Tipulidæ; plural crane-flies, the genus Tipula or the family of Tipulidæ; the typical species is popularly known as Daddy Long-legs.

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Crane-ladle

See LADLE. Crank--sometimes called the crane-handle--is a short arm or lever turned at right angles. One side is made round and smooth, to revolve easily in the hands while rotating the hoisting and other motions of the crane; the other angle terminates with a swaged hole to fit the squared end of the shafts which carry the gearing. See CRANE.

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Cranefly

a mosquito-like fly. It is often mistaken for an overgrown mosquito. Despite its long legs and wings, the cranefly is a stumbling walker and a poor flyer. Its natural home is in meadows. Its eggs are deposited in the ground. The second pair of wings are reduced to club-like appendages. Chambers states that the cranefly of England is called Peter-long-legs and that its larvae do serious damage to the roots of growing crops. Anyone who has watched the cranefly try to take care of six long legs at once can sympathize with the distressed owner. My six long legs, all here, all there, Oppress my bosom with despair.

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Cranes of Ibycus

. See Ibycus

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Cranganore

a town in Hindustan, in the presidency of Madras, state of Cochin, on the Malabar coast. Pop about 10,000. It is the traditional field of St. Thomas' labors in India; Jews have been settled here since the 4th century; and it is certain the Syrian church was established before the 9th.

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Crannog

a fortified lake dwelling, of which many are to be found in Ireland. They are supposed to have been formed about the 9th or 10th century.

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Cranston

EARL, an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Born in Athens, O., in 1840, and graduated from Ohio University in 1861, he served as a cavalryman in the Union armies during the Civil War. When the war closed he entered the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church. At the General Conference of 1884 he was elected publishing agent, a position he held until his election to the episcopate visited the in 1896. From 1898-1900 he visited the churches in China, Japan, and Corea. He was placed on the retired list by the General Conference of 1912.

ON, a city in Rhode Island, in Providence co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and the Providence river. Included within its limits are several villages. It is the site of a State reformatory for boys and girls, State prison, almshouse, insane asylum, and a workhouse. The industries include cotton mills, dairying, print goods manufacture and a wire factory. Pop. (1910) 21,107; (1920) 29,407.

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Crash

a coarse, inexpensive, plainwoven linen fabric used for toweling. It is woven usually in narrow widths. It may be bleached, but is sold frequently in the natural color. A smoothly woven quality is used for summer suits by both men and women, and is called crash suiting.

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Crashaw

RICHARD, an English poet; born in London in 1613. A convert to Catholicism, he wrote "Steps to the Temple" and "Sacred Poems," s," productions of great imaginative power. In or may. It is a European thorn. The 1634 Crashaw published a volume of Latin, poems, "Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber" (2d ed., 1670), in which appeared the famous line on the miracle at Cana: CRATÆGUS "Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit" (The modest water saw its God and blushed.) He died in Rome or Loreto, May or June, 1649. CRASSULACEÆ, house-leeks; order of hypogynous exogens, alliance an violales. It consists of succulent herbs or shrubs with entire or pinnatifid leaves and no stipules, flowers usually in sessile, often unilateral cymes.

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Crater Lake

a small lake in the Cascade Mountains, in Oregon, remarkable for its wall of perpendicular rock, from 1,000 to 2,000 feet high.

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Cratinus

One of the most celebrated of the Athenian poets of the old comedy, born в. c. 519. He gave the old comedy its peculiar character, and did not, like Aristophanes , live to see its decline.

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Cravanette

cra-ve-net', a closely woven, fine twilled, worsted cloth, used largely for men's summer coats and vests. A light weight of fine quality is used for women's suits and dresses. Cravanette, made waterproof by a special process, is used for mackintoshes and raincoats. The uniforms worn by the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America are made of this waterproof cravanette.

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Crawfish

or CRAYFISH, a name of various crustaceous animals, the common crawfish being the river lobster, a macrurous (long-tailed), 10-footed crustacean, resembling the lobster in appearance and habits. It inhabits the fresh waters of Europe and the N. of Asia, and is common in some of the streams of England. In the United States crawfish of the genus Astacus and Cambărus occur.

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Crawfordsville

a county-seat of Montgomery co., Ind.; on the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati and St. Louis, the Vandalia, the New York Central, and the Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis railroads; 44 miles W. of Indianapolis. It is the trade center of an extensive agricultural region. It is the seat of Wabash College, and has foundries, planing and flour mills, electric lights, water works, high school, daily and weekly newspapers, rs, 3 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,371; (1920) 10,139.

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Cream

the most oily part of milk. It is specifically lighter than the other constituents, and therefore rises to the surface, whence it is generally skimmed to be used as an adjunct in making tea and coffee palatable, to be eaten with various fruits, or for other purposes. In chemistry, hydrogen potassium tartarate (KHC₂H₂O), a salt obtained from the crude tartar, or argol, which is deposited on the side of wine casks during the fermentation of grape juice. It is a gritty white powder which forms small rhombic prisms, is sparingly soluble in water, and insoluble in alcohol. Heated in a crucible it evolves inflammable gas and the odor of burned sugar, and leaves a black residue of charcoal and potassium carbonate. In small doses it is a refrigerant and diuretic; in large doses a powerful hydragogue purgative. It is given, mixed with jalap, as a purgative cases of dropsy, and is used as a in febrile affections.

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